> On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 16:49 -0600, Ariel Sánchez Mora wrote: > > So far i've been able to store ip addresses as strings like > you would > > type them in DOS, for ex, '192.168.0.1'. This serves me > great since my > > application uses IP addresses as strings in all cases. I've done > > queries with the IP column , for example, select office_name from > > table_1 where ip='10.100.1.1'; and have never had any problems. > > However, if you plan on sorting based on this column, strings with > > periods do not behave correctly, and the answers to my previous > > question on this list do not apply; it makes a good aproximation, > > though.
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